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EDWARD D. WORRELL. 95

going and the color of his skin, and fixing his identity by a
combination of ‘‘remarkables.’’ A ‘‘remarkable lump,’’ or
“‘wen,”? or ‘knot,’ gay all the witnesses, under his chin
attracting the attention of the most careleas observer; a re-
markable star on his forehead, a peculiar snip on his nose, a
singalar growth of gray hair at the root of his tail, relieved
by the uncommonly beautiful and perfect chestnut color of
his skin. On such a horse, on such saddle, holding the reins
of a beautifnl bridle, Worrell rides publicly, without conceal-
ment, after having hid in a thicket a saddle which nobody
could recognize, and left in the road the dead body of the
man who rode it! He leaves him openly hitched at a rack,
within two and one-half miles of the body, and goes into a
grocery to be seen of men. He wears openly upon his hands
the large fur gloves of the deceased, and on his person his
watch, the seal of which contained the initials of Gordon’s
name. He speaks to every man he meets, he evinces no haste.
He stops at the hotel in St. Charles before night, and he does
not leave until after the ordinary breakfast hour next morn-
ing. He finds in the morning that the horse is known to be
Gordon’s horse. He evinces neither emotion, nor solicitude,
Dor caution. He rides to St. Louis, reaches there by 12 in the
daytime, puts up at a hotel. He does not reach St. Louis, the
Tesidence of Gordon, in the night and pass through it under
eover of darkness; he remains near two days, makes no effort
at concealment, is conspicuous at the hotel, makes acquaint-
ances, goes to the theater, etc. He is next at Vincennes, the
terminus of the St. Louis railroad, at which place on a great
thoroughfare of travel, the trains from our metropolis arrive
every day. He stops at the most public hotel, and with every
facility of travel, he remains at Vincennes four days. Braff
acting on the instincta of sanity, leaves him shortly after their
arrival, and diverging from the great line of travel from
West to East, veers off to the South. During those four days
he is everywhere in the town; shows his pistol to the land-
lord, geta him to take care of it, wears the military cap, the
military pants he wore at the scene of the homicide; intro-
duees himself to Harrow, an old acquaintance, who had for-

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